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Military service
Service number:
B/64220
Age:
30
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Division:
1ST Bn.
Death:
April 16, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XII. D. 14.
Additional information
Son of Agnes Cockburn, of Toronto, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Corporal Alexander Cockburn
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Photo of Alexander Cockburn
Corporal Cockburn enlisted in the QOR in June 1940 and served with the Regiment in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and in England. He was in the Support Company, Carrier Platoon, and went through Normandy, the Scheldt and the rhineland campaigns with the QOR. He was killed in northern Holland near the town of Sneek, when his carrier was hit by an anti-tank shell. -
Obituary
This obituary of Corporal Cockburn was clipped from a Toronto paper in 1945 by Mrs Josie McQuade. -
Grave Marker
This photo of Cpl Cockburn's gravemarker was taken in June 2003. -
Newspaper clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Toronto Telegram. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Digital gallery of
Corporal Alexander Cockburn
Digital gallery of
Corporal Alexander Cockburn
Digital gallery of
Corporal Alexander Cockburn
Digital gallery of
Corporal Alexander Cockburn
Digital gallery of
Corporal Alexander Cockburn
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 504 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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